The future's Orange for Instanta twins Gary (left) and Darren Rodwell (right) who, on Saturday had one of the best days of their lives when they followed their beloved Blackpool to Wembley and watched the fairytale ending to their football season unfold as the Tangerines went on to beat favourites Cardiff 3-2 in a memorable Championship play off final. Metal worker Gary and welder Darren have been following Blackpool for twenty years and have season tickets at the club. You may wonder why, when there are plenty of big clubs within an hour of Southport, they chose to follow a little seaside club that is a quite tortuous journey away. It's all a matter of family. In 1989 their uncle Tony Rodwell helped the club gain promotion from the then fourth division and his nephews were hooked and have been devotees ever since. Congratulations Darren and Gary I look forward to seeing you when you visit Anfield next season.
And while on the subject of Orange, it looks like it's going to be hard again to find something to see at Vue tomorrow. No sign of Four Lions or Bad Lieutenant at the local cinema and we've seen most of the others. So perhaps we'll give Street Dance 3d a chance. The reviews are OK and we've probably seen the story a million times before (Fame, School of Rock etc etc) but I quite fancy seeing the 3D effects and we've got plenty of vouchers so it's not going to cost us.
Regular blog readers might recognise this face. Rob Lowe (son of Tony in our stores department) has worked with us on work experience and as a student in the past but has now joined the office to help us cope with the ever increasing number of orders. Rob (21) who studied History at Manchester University is very interested in politics and history and it's a great pity that I am stuck in the cell as I would enjoy a bit of political debate. Rob will be dealing with processing the sales orders and will gradually become more involved with the customers as Craig Buckley's assistant.
Where's the blog been? A few readers have asked me why I have not updated as regularly recently. It's simply down to workload.I am trying to help prepare some forecasts for our new owners and I want to do it properly. There's lots I have not done and have to catch up on. But I am catching up now and hope to start to blog daily again henceforth.
I see that ITV stand to lose £1.5m for cutting short the hugely expensive Nike ad that was booked for a slot at the end of the Champions League final on Saturday. It seems that they missed the crucial ten seconds that shows the Nike logo. Oh well you could call me cynical but could the acres of newsprint and hundred of blogs (like this) repeating the story be worth a bit more than the lost ten seconds? Watch it yourself and see if you would have guessed what was being advertised.Mind you isn't that an Umbro logo on Rooney's shirt?
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